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Graham Platner continues to make his pitch for U.S. Senate in Maine, hoping voters there
will choose him to run against Susan Collins in November to ultimately succeed the Republican
who has been a U.S. Senate for nearly three decades, but Maine's longest-serving member of Congress did not appear visibly worried as Platner has been the subject to fresh controversy and involving allegations by two identified women in New York Times article claiming they were physically abused by him during their relationships.
“The allegations in the latest story are troubling, and I believe that Graham Platner has”
a lot of questions to answer. Platner, the leading Democratic candidate in Maine's competitive Senate race, tells his member's station, Maine Public Radio, the latest allegations against him are "not true." Pal's thinning authorities are expressing alarm over the Israeli parliament's decision to give tax breaks to residents of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, Noah
Musla has more from Ramallah.
Then you low gives residents of dozens of settlements, tax breaks of several thousand dollars a year. Although it is illegal under international law, Israelis encouraging settlement on occupied Palestinian property. Pal's thinning authority official Amir Ode told NPR the move was a step towards illegally
annexing the West Bank. Earlier this year, the Israeli government extended controls over the territory, and allowed
“Jewish Israelis to buy West Bank land directly.”
Attacks by Israeli settlers have also increased in an attempt to drive Palestinian families from the West Bank, according to a report by UNN experts this week. The report side to the sharp rise in Palestinians killed and injured this year, in settler attacks. For NPR news, I'm nominally in Ramallah.
Tax stocks stumbled Friday with a tech-heavy Nasdaq index falling more than 4% and appears John Ruiz reports. The sell-off was triggered by concerns around the artificial intelligence investment boom, and companies linked to AI in one way or another led the way down, including chip stocks. In video, which makes the most popular microchips for AI, saw its share price dropped
6%, chipmaker AMD's shares fell nearly 11%, and broad calm was off more than 7% following a double-digit drop the day before after it's earnings outlook failed to impress investors. Other tech giants were also down on the day as investors sold their shares to locking
“in recent profits, Intel, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, and Alphabet all dropped.”
I'll told the Nasdaq's fall of 4.2% was its biggest drop in one day since April 2025, still the index is in positive territory over the past month, and it's up 33% from you. This is NPR. As startup company tested a small nuclear reactor in Idaho this week, that could someday help humans live on the moon.
The Department of Energy says it's the first of its kind to be turned on in the last four decades. The Mountain West News Bureau's Hannah Merzbock reports. Tom Hansen Allie with the company and Terry says its microreactor could power lunar space missions and remote military bases.
Where the grid might not be as reliable and where it's difficult to bring the liquid fuel supply and the complexities of liquid fuel logistics.
The test model of integries is microreactor when critical at the Idaho National Lab.
That means the company safely controlled a nuclear-physian reaction, but didn't produce any electricity. This is the first reactor in a U.S. energy department program to meet a July 4th deadline. The Fed's fast-tracked reactor licenses to assure in a "nuclear renaissance." Something some experts worry could result in mistakes.
For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbock in Jackson, Wyoming. The State Department announced today that the U.S. will commit an additional $38 million to try and control the latest Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa, which is said to have been detected in mid-May in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and later neighboring Uganda. This raises the Trump administration's response efforts to more than $200 million.
The news comes as the CDC says new models project if the outbreak is not controlled. There could be as many as 20,000 global cases. This is NPR News. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR is what's happening in culture podcast. Starts by asking three questions.
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